Vidya Poshak

Thank you for joining hands with us, we appreciate your kind
gesture in extending a helping hand for the noble cause of nurturing
meritorious but economically challenged students. None of our
work could be done without our amazing supporters like you. With your great
support we are nurturing meritorious students and going to nurture nonacademic
excellent students from this year.

We are pleased to
share you with the Quarter highlights of Vidya Poshak activities

1. We
have trained 28 different background professionals on personal and career
counselling under the new initiative of Carving
out Counsellors program with the Association of Samdhana trust in Dharwad.
The trainees committed to provide free counselling in their districts.

3. 12 students were qualified JEE advanced in that 3 students were cleared JEE mains exam through our IIT/JEE training program.

4. Totally 321 students who were financially assisted by Vidya Poshak appeared for Ist -PUC examination in 2017 out of which 100% students were successful in the examination. 210 students scored 80% and above.

5. Totally 393 students who were financially assisted by Vidya Poshak appeared for II -PUC examination in 2017 out of which 100% students were successful in the examination. 209 students scored 80% and above.

6. As a
pilot, Vidya Poshak will be venturing into a new initiative Nurturing Extracurricular Talent (NExT)
from this year. The programme provides space for supporting deserving students
in pursuing excellence in nonacademic areas. This year we are going to support
in the field of music (Indian classical form), Sports (individual events only)
and Dance (Indian forms).

9. Ms.Rakshita
Bhat, Ms. Anupama, and Ms. Swati were cleared foundation exam conducted by Company Secretary in first attempt.

10. In
last quarter five Residential Bridge
Camps were conducted in Daddikamlapura, Goli, Shankar Matha, Vysya hostel
and Huliyala for degree and PU students. Totally 282 students were participated
and covered the theme of Personality development, English language improvement,
Interview readiness, Aptitude skills, disaster management and social
responsibility.

This
program includes Financial Assistance, Library/Book Bank facilities and
Residential Bridge Camp. The mission is to provide financial assistance to
meritorious students who cannot afford to continue their higher education owing
to their financial difficulties. To-date Vidya Poshak has invested more than
INR 300 million on this.

Key Highlights (April 2016 - Oct 2016)

· During the year nearly 4200 applications
were received for financial assistance. After Home visits, we found 474 new
students were eligible for financial assistance. Out of the 474 new students 338
were assisted under Nurture merit scheme and 136 students were supported under
Matching grant program.

· During the year all together 1500
Meritorious and financial challenged students were financially assisted with a
sum of INR 75 Lakh to pursue their higher education (Till date).

· 60% of the total student beneficiaries were girls
this year

· More than 15,000+ books were issued to the
students at Vidya Poshak libraries and youth centers.

On the basis of our internal
assessment, we are hoping that 4 out of the 29 students from the Ist batch will succeed in
getting into one of the IITs. 10 students will clear JEE Main and may get into
other prestigious engineering colleges. The rest of the batch who are concentrating
on the state level CET exam, are expected to get top ranks and join
professional colleges in the state.The IInd batch may do even better next year.

Skill Development Program is an innovative idea of training the
degree students from ruralcolleges for 6 to 14 days to enable the
students with skill sets to get the first job and make them ready to crack competitive exams. VP has conducted
training for more than 200 students from 3 colleges this year.

Matching Grant Scheme: Under this program economically
backward and meritoriousstudents of an institution are financially
supported jointly by the institution and Vidya Poshak (50: 50: Partnership) In
addition, Vidya Poshak provides employment readiness training for the students
selected under this scheme. 13 Degree Colleges have joined for this initiative
to date.

Key
Highlights

·During the year totally 236 students
were financially assisted with Sum of INR 14.29 Lakh to pursue their degree courses
in partnership with college/institutions.

· This year three new colleges have joined hands
with vidya poshak and agreed to implement MGS in their colleges.

Value Education & Supportive
Classes: Vidya Poshak
Training team in associationwith Tata Motors is providing Career Guidance,
Life Skills, Value Education & Supportive Classes for Students of Class 8,
9 & 10 in 4 schools surrounding Tata Motors Plant in Dharwad district. This
year we have trained 500 High School students under
this scheme

New Programs

Abdul
Kalam Susandhi Fellowship Program

Abdul Kalam Susandhi Fellowship is a unique program, a small
step to transform the lives of rural and poorer families by enabling their
children to pursue a world class professional program in the hi-tech domain of
VLSI/Embedded/Software. This creates an opportunity which is otherwise
unavailable to them. The program is designed to nurture their inherent
strengths while at the same time impart significant new skills, both technical
and life skills, to enable them to confidently enter the Hi-Tech domain of
VLSI/Embedded/Software.

Abdul Kalam Susandhi Fellowship is crafted as a “Earn
while you Learn” program so that the parents and the families do not
experience a financial burden. In fact Susandhi students start supporting their
families very early in their career.

We would like to thank you for the support in the noble cause of
nurturing meritorious but economically challenged students.

We are pleased to inform you that in the year 2015-2016, Vidya Poshak supported
a total of 2000+ students to pursue their dream of higher education
owing to contribution from generous donors like you.

Quarterly
Update of Vaidya Poshak activities

ØFinancial
assistance: 3200 +
new students applied for financial assistance from across 12
districts of Karnataka. Out of these applications 50% applicants scored more
than 90% and 40% of the applicants scored between 80% to 90% in their SSLC
Board examination.

ØLibrary
services
organised following career guidance seminars

Ø “WHAT AFTER PUC?” for the benefit
of Class XII students

“HOW TO FACE CAMPUS INTERVIEW” for students finishing
degree courses.

ØMore
than 500 academic books of their choice were issued to the students

ØResidential
bridge camps :A total of 450+ students were
trained in 05 residential bridge camps

ØCoaching
for entrance to IITs: More than 300 students have shown
interest to join the coaching classes conducted by “AVANTI” team and sponsored
by Vidya Poshak. 30 of them will be selected through entrence examination for
the coaching.

ØNew
Program

Abdul Kalam Susandhi Fellowship
Program: Vidya poshak, in association with
Ekalaksha, has announced free training and job opportunity in high tech domain
for financial challenged meritorious students for 2016-17. The program will
start in July.

We are happy to share with you the overall academic progress
report of the XI and XII Vidya Poshak scholars.

Here is the quick analysis :

Class
XI Students academic progress report

Class
XII Students academic progress report

Currently, we are in the process of ensuring continued support for these
student(s) to help them continue their education. Hence, it is our
humble request to you to consider the feasibility of extending your support
to these student(s) for the year 2016-2017 also.

As before, you can choose from the following options for sending your
valuable donation:

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